Thread: Where were you Sept.11 2001?

Was at work in the distribution area of my utility. Someone wheeled out the TV cart and was talking about a plane crash. While watching, we too witnessed the second plane crash. We later saw the plane that hit the pentagon (footage still exists, but I think it's not re-aired due to security reasons). It was hard to maintain normal business that day with the news on, but we did.
It took months to get those people jumping out of my mind. One person in particular had obviously spent a lot of time working out, made me think about how many people had spent the last few months dieting, working out, quitting smoking, or otherwise depriving themselves of things only to have this happen. Probably sounds silly, but it put some things in perspective for me.
On the drive home someone hung a flag from one of the bridges that crosses the freeway. I thought it was a neat symbol of unity as it meant more that day than any other day in my life.
-Fred

Where were you September 11th, 2001?

I was in my office on the 95th floor of 1 WTC, working on the expense report that I was supposed to have submitted the week before.
I was flying home from Boston on United Airlines flight 175 to visit my family. It had been a long time since I'd left Burbank and I was homesick.
I was setting up the conference room for meeting of my group at the Pentagon. The projector had been acting up and my boss wanted this meeting to go off without a hitch.
I was working as a flight attendant for United Airlines, on flight 93 from Newark to San Fransisco. I was tired and ready for a day off.
I was on my regular shift as a Paramedic/Firefighter for the NYFD. I'd tweaked my back during my last shift and I was hoping for a quiet day.
I was trying to figure out a problem with a network router for a financial services company on the 83rd floor of 2 WTC.
I was on my third sales call to a prospective client in Santa Barbara, they just needed one more visit to pull the trigger. Fortunately American had a seat available at the last minute. Had I'd flown flight 11 before? I think I'd flown every flight from Boston to LA, they're all pretty much the same.


I was all of these, and 2,967 others.
I was.

Copyright 2007, John M. Luker

Thank you to all that have posted so quickly! I am hoping that many more will also post.

I was in Scottsdale AZ. I had just flown back from San Diego where I had gone to pick up my mother so she could be helpfull to my wife when our first child was born! My wife was eight months pregnant. My mother came into our bedroom,woke me up and said you better come see this. It was like a dream. My mother told me later that she initially thought that she was watching a bad movie. I spent the day making sure all the young kids that worked at the bakery where I worked weren't too freaked, of course how do you comfort anybody after such an event?

It wasn't until five months later when I visited New York city and went to the WTC site that the enormity of what had actually happened hit me!

I was in our old office. As soon as we saw the footage in the morning, our boss gathered us immediately to talk. While nobody knew for sure, he was certain it's an attack, and was concerned about friends in the DoD. I thought he's wrong because I couldn't believe someone would do this attack... naive, isn't it

He let us all leave and take care of our families as we see fit, offering any help if we needed it.

This was very nice of him

Ivo

Originally Posted by jimmyman

Sitting in my small office in Baumholder, Germany. Then the boss yelled at everyone to come into his office. He had the TV on and we all watched as the second plane hit. Suffice it to say we were all in shock, as we knew at that moment exactly what was going on. After that, everything ramped up and a lot of us stayed in the office for about 4 days straight with little to no sleep, working our asses off.

As a side note, I was assigned in Baumholder in 1983, 415th ASA Battalion, later 108th Military Intelligence Battalion (8th Infantry Division)...small world!

Greg

I had just arrived at work in downtown Philly. I remember walking to work and marveling at the glorious September morning - bright, clear, crisp - but feeling something was wrong. When i got to work, the internet wasn't working (later we discovered that is was simply overloaded) and right then, someone said a plan has hit WTC. Like most others, I thought A Cessna.....then the news came thorugh that it was an airliner. We were told to evacuate our building (one of the tallest in Philly, so believed to be a possible target). We watch the events on the tv hanging outside the Crown Plaza hotel's valet desk (put there to pass the time while they go get your car, I guess)...that was where I saw Tower 1 collapse. We returned to the office to get our things and were told we could go back to our hotels or anyplace "not in the skyscraper." Several of us went to an Irish pub nearby and ate/drank while watching on the tvs they usually kept put away except for the Superbowl. Bouts of numbness, shock, weeping at the losses, concern for friends still in the military. To my firm's crdit, shortly after the attacks, they did a world-wide roll call - we had a large team at Morgan Stanley....but they were all off-site that day. Later, calls wne out to all employees, looking for volunteers to house co-workers stranded on the East Cost...very nice to see such organization. I also remember emailing a Sikh friend and asking if he and his family were ok...a valid concern,knowing how knowledgeable most Americans are about other cultures.......(later that week, a Sikh was murdered by a "patriot" who felt it was his duty to "kill a raghead."

Originally Posted by WireBeard

......(later that week, a Sikh was murdered by a "patriot" who felt it was his duty to "kill a raghead."

Didn't a couple of yahoos in Georgia torch a Mexican restaurant in a fit of "911 revenge"? I seem to recall that happening, but cannot be sure.

On a roof near I-Drive, keeping a close eye out for low flying planes headed towards Disney !

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

On a roof near I-Drive, keeping a close eye out for low flying planes headed towards Disney !

AAA or sniper? LMFAO

I had just finished showering in my first apartment together with my wife. We had just gotten married on July 7, 2001, and was waiting on the Bar results, so I was selling Cricket phones until I found out the results. I was sitting in my lime green cricket shirt, khaki slacks, and brown leather loafers. I turned on the TV in living room and saw that the first plane had hit the WTC. I sat and watched and called my wife in to see what had happened, when just then the second plane hit. When my wife saw the second plane hit she simply stated "This is war." How right she was, and still is. I had to pry myself away from the TV in order to go to work. Luckily I was selling the phones at a SAM's Club, and my station was right next to the TV's, so we tuned them to the news, and watched the developments all day long.

We should never forget what happened on that dark day, support the men and women defending us, and rise to the challenge of defending our constitution, nation, and freedoms against all who would impose their will through force, and terror.